"Ditto; I miss long meta discussions. Though we're having a lot of them now about the state of fandom!"
I think meta discussions are something that haven't really featured into my experience of fandom until just now. The kind of sites where they've taken place - LiveJournal, for example, or Tumblr - are the ones that I've never really got on board with. But also, one thing that occurred to me while writing this post, though I didn't wind up mentioning it, is that I wouldn't have had much of anything to *say* about fandom prior to about 2011. I didn't really have an awareness of "fandom" as an entity, and I don't think I thought of myself as being "in fandom". 2011 was when I discovered AO3, and by extension the OTW, and started reading and thinking a lot more about what it meant to be fannish.
"I had the odd experience in the mid-00s of seeing the fanfic lists at Yahoo Groups go quieter and quieter, and having no idea why, until someone clued me in to the fact that fandom was moving to LiveJournal. "
Ugh, I can't imagine how weird that was. I'm glad that someone was able to let you know what was happening, though. Do you know why people migrated away from those lists? Did something change about Yahoo Groups, or was it more that LiveJournal provided a more attractive space?
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I think meta discussions are something that haven't really featured into my experience of fandom until just now. The kind of sites where they've taken place - LiveJournal, for example, or Tumblr - are the ones that I've never really got on board with. But also, one thing that occurred to me while writing this post, though I didn't wind up mentioning it, is that I wouldn't have had much of anything to *say* about fandom prior to about 2011. I didn't really have an awareness of "fandom" as an entity, and I don't think I thought of myself as being "in fandom". 2011 was when I discovered AO3, and by extension the OTW, and started reading and thinking a lot more about what it meant to be fannish.
"I had the odd experience in the mid-00s of seeing the fanfic lists at Yahoo Groups go quieter and quieter, and having no idea why, until someone clued me in to the fact that fandom was moving to LiveJournal. "
Ugh, I can't imagine how weird that was. I'm glad that someone was able to let you know what was happening, though. Do you know why people migrated away from those lists? Did something change about Yahoo Groups, or was it more that LiveJournal provided a more attractive space?